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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:01:07 +0300
From: Jani tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
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Subject: Re: installing cygwin on private lan
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Jani tiainen wrote:

> hazloya AT comcast DOT net wrote:
> 
> [Snip]
> 
>> So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate
>> the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin?
> 
> 
> Cygwin needs still Windows environment, not DOS environment. And for 
> Linux and Windows co-operation you could use NetBIOS (Samba on Linux side).
> 
> For further information refer Linux documentation about Samba server, 
> and accessing network shares for Windows machine.

Of course there is possibly option to use WINE, don't know does it work 
tough...

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Jani Tiainen


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